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How to make ADE Assembler save ALL global variables to file during a run?

Hi,

I'm doing batch processing of the cadence results database outside cadence (in MATLAB).

I've noticed that all global variables are not saved to the variables_file in the psf directory. This is for example the case for config sweep variables.

Is there some way to force ADE to save all variables? Or is it possible to read the configuration for a simulation point from some other file?

All the best,

Martin

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Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago
Hi Martin,

If you used the ADE MATLAB integration product, then there is a set of functions you can use in MATLAB which allow you to read all the scalar results plus parameter conditions (i.e. the conditions for sweeps etc) from the database (an SQL database) that ADE uses directly into MATLAB. Perhaps you could look at that? Here are a couple of videos (one by me, and one by me with a colleague from the MathWorks):

Making the most of using MathWorks MATLAB and Virtuoso ADE Product Suite together

Using the Enhanced Virtuoso ADE Product Suite and MATLAB Integration: A Practical Guide

There is also the database that spectre saves with its global parameters, but that too wouldn't include the config sweep variables, so that won't help you...

Regards,

Andrew.
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Martinum over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your super fast responce!

Unfortunately it seems we do not have the necessary licenses to try this tight integration at this point.

Just curious, where is the config info saved for ADE? It shows the config as a parameter just like a DC variable being swept... but doesnt save them together...

All the best,

Martin
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Martinum over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your super fast responce!

Unfortunately it seems we do not have the necessary licenses to try this tight integration at this point.

Just curious, where is the config info saved for ADE? It shows the config as a parameter just like a DC variable being swept... but doesnt save them together...

All the best,

Martin
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Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to Martinum

Martin,

The setup is in the XML file for the view (maestro.sdb or active.state depending on which part it is), but the real record of what was simulated (i.e. what you want) here goes into the "Interactive.N.rdb" file. The PSF database for variables is there for calculations (and actually the designParamVals database is more important for this; variables is for legacy ADE L support more than anything). However, since you're not going to do calculations on the sweep view name, and spectre has no need to know this, it doesn't get stored into the PSF database. Most of the higher level sweep information is going to be in the "rdb" which is the SQL database used to keep track of results and so on.

Andrew.
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